Noun
representative government (countable and uncountable, plural representative governments)
A government where citizens elect people to represent them and make laws on their behalf, instead of always voting directly on laws and other government actions.
That fatal drollery called a representative government. Benjamin Disraeli
Federal law forms a new governance structure that opposes both free enterprise and representative government...A new national curriculum is used that embraces a socialist, globalist worldview; loyalty to all government and not America. Michele Bachmann
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region. Douglas J. Feith
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security. Hugo Black
The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security. Hugo Black